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How many copies did Halo: Spartan Strike sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 83k–135k
$68k–$184k after Steam's cut $124k–$283k before the cut
from 2k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Halo: Spartan Strike out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Halo: Spartan Strike's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 120k–318k
best case 1.1M (Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop)
Games like Halo: Spartan Strike

The middle of these games

≈ 120k–318k copies

≈ $659k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop at ≈ 818k–1.3M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 6k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Sci-fi (5 of 8) and Aliens (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Aliens, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Aliens + PvE + Class-Based; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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